Berlin - New National Gallery Neue Nationalgalerie
The Berlin New National Gallery, a two-part steel and glass structure designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was built in 1965-68. It consists of a square hall and a basement structure housing the collection. At the north and south ends of the building, flights of steps lead up to the platform on the roof of the basement structure, and the entrance is approached by another flight of steps on the main front.
The terrace is adorned with sculptures by Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Joannis Avramidis and George Rickey. The collection consists of pictures, sculptures and drawings of the 19th and 20th C., including the Realists, the German school in Rome, the French and German Impressionists, the Expressionists, the Bauhaus, the Surrealists and contemporary art as well as a good selection of American paintings. The most important artists represented include: Adolph von Menzel ("The Dinner Dance," "The Flute Concert," "Crown Prince Frederick visits the artist Pesne on the scaffolding in Rheinsberg," "The Balcony Room" and "Theatre du Gymnase"); Honoré Daumier; Camille Corot; Arnold Böcklin; Anselm Feuerbach ("The Oarsmen"); Lovis Corinth ("Self-portrait"); Edouard Manet ("In a Winter Garden"); Auguste Renoir ("In Summer"); Edvard Munch ("The Frieze of Life"); George Grosz ("Pillars of Society"); Max Beckmann ("Picture of the George Family"); Max Ernst ("Capricorn"). The gallery incorporates the old 19th C. gallery in Jebenstrasse and also puts on periodic special exhibitions.
Associated with the gallery are a workshop for the restoration of pictures and drawings, a reference library and a large collection of slides.
As the gallery is already bursting at the seams, the works of the Biedermeier period and those of the German Romantics were moved in the autumn of 1986 to the Knobelsdorff Wing in Charlottenburg Palace. There is also a "Forum of Topical Art" in the hall on the ground floor of the Grundkreditbank at Budapester Str. 35.
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